joshua kirsch: ACP donor wheel

joshua kirsch: ACP donor wheel



commissioned by the arts council of princeton, the ACP donor wheel by joshua kirsch
is a permanent sculpture which recognizes the institution's donors. housed in the rotunda
of the paul robeson center for the arts in princeton, new jersey, the motorized disk has about
2000 names which are loosely grouped by first letter of the donor's last name.
accompanying the sculpture is a control panel with buttons of each letter of the alphabet
(excluding Q and X). when someone wants to find a particular name, they can push the
corresponding first letter of the name on the panel. the wheel then turns and stops at the
section displaying names with that requested letter, backlighting those names with LEDs
to highlight them.




donor names




detail






control panel used to find names on the wheel







ACP Donor Wheel from Joshua Kirsch on Vimeo.

andrea db
10.29.09  
1
Boo! I had high hopes for this thing when I saw the pictures. I thought each ring rotated independently of each other and in different directions at different speeds to collect all names of the same first letter at the bottom. Then to watch the video and see the thing laboriously spin and stop and rock back and forth. Disappointing.
therris   10.30.09

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